Amar Jyoti (अमर ज्योति)

Research Interests- CBC, MP, FinMkt. Loves to read: Macro, Indian Pol Econ, Public Choice. Migrant Bihari. Tweets on #Econ & #Analytics. Views are personal.

[Amar Jyoti (अमर ज्योति) @amar_econ]

The Nobel Prize committee validates that institutions matter for economic prosperity. #NobelPrize2024

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”

#NobelPrize

[Amar Jyoti (अमर ज्योति) @amar_econ]

Our new Op-ed in @livemint.

A thread by Prof @mahambare_vidya on the same.

[VidyaMahambare @mahambare_vidya]

1/5 Comparison of rural & urban per-person spending in India based on 2022-23 data
Items with rural spending,
Higher - Vegetables
Similar - Pulses, but also pan, tobacco, intoxicants & sugar, salt, spices
Lower - Fruits, milk & milk products, healthcare, education

[Amar Jyoti (अमर ज्योति) @amar_econ]

Wrote an Op-ed in @livemint with Prof @mahambare_vidya.

We talk about how consumption data can shed more nuance to our understanding of economic prosperity and variation thereof across states.

Link: https://t.co/79viU6G1WD

[Deedy @deedydas]

In the first study of its kind, we looked at the outcomes of the top 250 rankers from the IIT class of 2013-2020.

HALF of the top ranking IITians 30-32 years old are in the USA, but only 20% of the 25 year olds are!

🧵

1/4

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

🤷🤷‍♀️New data: SHRUG 2 is out!! @devdatalab has been working on this for two years, a HUGE update to India’s coolest data platform:
1. Maps of *every* 2011 town and village, with ids
2. All data at every geography (villages, districts, ACs, etc)...
https://t.co/tIWzPykzJQ

🧵1/N

[Noah Williams @Bellmanequation]

Updated Google Search Phillips Curve:
• Inflation search interest peaked in August 2022 and has dropped to about half that high by May 2023.
• But inflation search interest is still about double levels of 2019 & 2020
• Unemployment search interest remains low

[Anup Malani @anup_malani]

Not new news, but still shocking:

The West played an important role in pressuring India to engage in mass sterilization to control population in the 1970s. It wasn’t India acting all on its own.

From @slatestarcodex

[Nishith Prakash @Prof_Nishith_P]

Last Saturday, I visited @UHouston after long time for 2nd Alumni Conference! It was not only fun but emotional to relive the past! I met my advisors, friends and current #PhD students! Thank you for organizing this @ElaineLiuEcon @DietzVollrath & Kei-Mu. @UH_EconAlumni

[Fernando Rios-Avila (~ ‾⌣‾)~ @friosavila]

For those using
@jmwooldridge
's "Introductory #Econometrics" book, you probably know about Florian Heiss & Daniel Brunner books for Learning #R and #Python

Great news now there is one more using #julia!

Great way to learn all the basics!
For now he also has the pdfs!

[Nishtha Sharma @NishthaChatters]

Call for Research Assistant. Email me at [email protected] if you have any questions @econ_ra

[Simon Bowmaker @SimonBowmaker]

Daron Acemoğlu on whether it is important to have broad research interests:

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Inflation rate:

Argentina 🇦🇷 88%
Turkey 🇹🇷 85.51%
Netherlands 🇳🇱 14.3%
Russia 🇷🇺 12.6%
Italy 🇮🇹 11.8%
UK 🇬🇧 11.1%
Germany 🇩🇪 10%
Mexico 🇲🇽 8.41%
USA 🇺🇸 7.7%
India 🇮🇳 6.77%
Brazil 🇧🇷 6.47%
France 🇫🇷 6.2%
Indonesia 🇮🇩 5.42%
Japan 🇯🇵 3.7%
Switzerland 🇨🇭 3%
China 🇨🇳 2.1%

[VidyaMahambare @mahambare_vidya]

India has one of the lowest rates of women in paid work. @GreatLakes_MBA is hosting a research conference to deliberate on related issues on 9th/10th Dec 2022.

Please join us on campus or virtually. The conference agenda is here -
https://t.co/8pNWTdunep

[anshul gupta @anshgupta64]

Municipal Corporations in India are struggling. RBI did some research to understand the reasons why and published a report on the same.

A thread on the report.

[Chris Blattman @cblatts]

So many aspiring young social scientists applying for their first research assistant positions right now, I thought I'd regale you with my first RA job (and my third best field work story). 👇

[Shohan Mukherjee @res_shohan]

Are you looking for free publicly available datasets?

@AnthonyLeeZhang has this great repository of rich datasets that would greatly aid in your research journey
https://t.co/BMNA1ALv92

[Amar Jyoti (अमर ज्योति) @amar_econ]

@desi_thug1 @get_this_v

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

1/ I spent over 4 years in my PhD deep inside mathematical models of wireless systems. It slowly dawned on me that the professors were addicted to the models themselves and never entertained any doubts about whether the models had much to do with reality.

[Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay @AbhiroopMukho]

#EconTwitter 1/8

[Society for Economics Research in India @SERI_Network]

SERI is excited to announce an Indian Job Market for Economists. IJME will be organized in association with @econometricsoc, @EconJobMarket and @ncaer. Learn more at https://t.co/vZ4r6XwMa8